The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-02-04
SOUTHERN eLEANINos.

pu6S on time pays ABOUT - per C0A~
profit ON bacon to the merchant, and S41
per cent on corn, for about four months
time, which is equivalent TO rates of in.
terest of 100 and 1O4 per cent per annum.
Two vatermelons, fresh from the vine,
were shipped from Laurinburg, N. G.,
few days ago to a Congressman at Wasn'
ington.
A cotton fire in Memphis, Tenn, few
days ago destroyed $500 bales OF tns
STAPLE, on which there was insurance oi
STA, 800.
4 shot-tower was burned in New Or
leans few nights ag0. Loss; $75IO0o; In
surance, $4,000.
Sheriff 7. B. Powell, Of Muh1enberg
County, KY, was shot and killed at Para
disc, on Green river, few days ago while
attempting the arrest of James T. Hop
kins, who murdered his son about Ave
months ago.
The Memphis & Charleston Railroad
6gnsNnyz proposes to build a round house
and machine shops at Sheffield, Ala
Wood alcohol works are being erected
Decatur, Ala
The post-oface at Columbus, Miss, wa.
entered by burglars few nights ago and
robbed of $500 in money and several reg
istered letters.
Twelve railroads have been chartered in
Tennessee within the past few weeks.
The Piedmont Hotel, the State ware
house and eight stores at Reidsvillei N. g.
were burned a few days ago. Loss, $50,
coo; insured for S22, 900.
Governor Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia and
party Of friends have been enjoying the
hospitalities of the Governor of Mime
sofa and taking in the st. Paul carnival
The jury in the Lily Gibson murder trial
at San Antonio, Tex, returned verdict
giving the woman five years in the peni-
bentiary. The trial was a long and sensa-
tional one.
Miss Mamie Denton, daughter OF
Colonel John Denton, of Carrolton, Ark,
was instantly killed few days ago by
being thrown from wagon. The horses
were running away. Colonel Denton and
Mr.. Geo. VIII ite were seriously injured,
A shooting ARRAY occurred at Centsr-
vile, La, few days ago, between two
men named Simoneaux and Gordy,
Simoneaux was shot through the head
and died from the effects of his injuries.
Gordy was shot through the breast, and
was thought to be mortally wounded.
Two colored children, aged about three
! years, were burned to death on the COM
/ mons at Paducah, KY, few days SINCE
| Their mothers had tied them to chairs and
| placed them on a straw mattress, after
starting fire to keep them warm. A
/ spark set fire to the mattress and a holo-
| caust was the result. The women had
| been evcted from their homes, and had
! gone in search of another house.
The largest fire that ever occurred in
! the history of Dallas, Tex, occurred a few
! days ago, and four, of the largest firms,
/ consisting of the wholesale grocery houses
! of T. L. Marsalis & Co and Armstrong
Bros, and the wholesale liquor houses of
! E. NJ. Tillman & Co. and S. B. Hopkins q
| Co, were consumed with all their con.
tents Total loss, S440O 900; total insur
ance, S303. .925.
While leading young horse to water at
| Georgetown, KY, a few days ago, Please
| Johnson, little negro boy ten years old,
tied the halter to his wrist The horse
became frightened and. running away,
dragged the boy after him for half a mile.
When found the body of the boy was lying
in the pasture; his skull kicked to = shapes
less mass, while the arm to which the
halter mad been tied was dangling at the
end of the rope around the horses neck,
some distance away.
The case of MISS Annie Boyer, at Pa
ducah, KY, charged with the murder Of
her infant niece by throwing the child IN
well, was taken up before Judge Spence
few davs ago on a motion to admit her
to bail. The witnesses examined, inolud-
ing the parents of the child, unanimously
agreed that the young lady was insane,
and that she had always exhibited extra
ordinary fondness for the child Bail ii
! the sum OF $1,000 was accepted and the
1 girl given her freedom
George Dallas, tenant farmer neai
I Danville, Va, was arrested recently for
/ whipping to death William Fitzgerald,
/ aged thirteen years, the son of his Nifes
/ brot her. Dallas testified before the
coroner that the boy, who lived with hi1u,
had told him lie; that thereupon he
stripped and whipped the boy with a
| leather strap fifteen or twenty minutes.
When he stopped whipping him the lad did
not get up, and he picked HIM up and set
him in a chair He did not intend to kill
| the lad. The dead body was sitting n
chair when a neighbor, whom Dallas sum-
mOned, arrived. The body was covered
with bruises, and the skin was broken Ii
! several places.
Chas. Taylor, of Columbus, Miss, ar
| rived in Nashville, Tenn, few nights
ago, and was arrested for carrying
| pistol and threatening to kill several per-
sons, as we'll as to take his own life with
! chlOrOform When taken to the station
house and searched there were found in
his possession revolver and 1868 in
money The post-ofilce at Columbus hav-
ing been robbed a few nights previously
of $500. the suspicious of the police were
aroused. and he telegraphedt to Postmaster
Hale of TaylOr's arrest Mr.. Hale ordered
Chief Kerrigan to hold Taylor, who sub
sequently made full confession.
George Caldwell, while bear-hunting
few days ago on Balsam mountain, one of
the highest mountains in North Carolina
discovered man almost naked wanderin
aimlessly around in the snow, which was
nearly two feet deep, and eight miles from
the nearest habitation. On seeing Ca1d.
Well he started to run, but was easily
Overtaken and captured. His clothing
was found to consist of q flannel under
shirt, which was torn into shreds, and one
shoe. His feet were frost-bitten and his
legs fearfully scratched by briars. He is
a veritable skeleton. All efforts to get
him to tell his name or give an intelligent
account of himself have so far failed.
Mount Sterling, KY, was thrown into a
state of excitement a few days ago upon
hearing that five prisoners, desperate
characters, had made their escape from
the county jail, and that Jailer Pat Punch
had been badly wounded. The city was
at once put under a heavy guard, and
every effort was being made to recapture
The fleeing criminals.
The new South still booms.
A dog belonging to Henry Dinsel, al
Central City, KY, was suddenly seized
with hydroPhobia a few days ago, and BIT
a six-year-e daughter of Mrs. J. T Ad.
cock, infiicting a severe wound. Several
dogs were also bitten, all ef which, the
bitter included, were shot.
The illicit distlIlers in Dawson County,
Ga, are making it warm for informers,
several of whom have been warned to
leave, while others have been mercilessly
whipped by midnight visitors. One,
Andrew Howard, was shot twice and then
jumped upon by five masked men until his
sntrails P rotruded, and died IN a few
hours.
a horse was sold for two dollars at
Laurinburg, n c., few days ago
=. c. Justice, a Towns Comfy (Ga.)